Monday, October 3, 2016

New York disaster

An artist erected a monument in Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan. It's just a short distance from other monuments honoring soldiers, sailors, and mariners lost at sea or on the battlefield. It's in memory of the 400 lives lost when a ferry was pulled to the bottom of the river by a giant octopus 53 years ago. What? There's a giant octopus in the river off Battery Park? No, it's all a hoax made up by the artist. It took him 6 months to build everything he needed to "prove" his story. There's a website, documentary, newspaper articles, and glossy fliers that direct tourists to a fake Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum across the harbor. The artist has to move the memorial every two days or the city will remove it. fake memorial